Behind the Scenes: Los Angeles, An Environmental History.
My latest video on how and why L.A. got to be the way it is has been a long time in the making.
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Interiors: The Lincoln children’s bedroom, Springfield, Illinois, circa 1861.
O Captain, My Captain: Remembering Patrick Stewart.
Rock in space: Encountering asteroid 951 Gaspra.
Autumn in the Garden? Some thoughts on the future of this publication.
A retro film for spooky season: “Gothic” by Ken Russell (1986).
Historic Photo: Outside the Yellow Palace, Mongolia, 1913.
The Verge
Behind the Scenes: Los Angeles, An Environmental History.
My latest video on how and why L.A. got to be the way it is has been a long time in the making.
Interiors: The Lincoln children’s bedroom, Springfield, Illinois, circa 1861.
Rock in space: Encountering asteroid 951 Gaspra.
Autumn in the Garden? Some thoughts on the future of this publication.
A retro film for spooky season: “Gothic” by Ken Russell (1986).
Historic Photo: Outside the Yellow Palace, Mongolia, 1913.
The story of the Vrouw Maria: The lost ship of incredible Dutch art treasures.
The Outer Garden
O Captain, My Captain: Remembering Patrick Stewart.
The wisdom and compassion of Picard the character, and Stewart the man, will endure as long as the stars.
The dark side of the Moon revealed: The flight of Luna 3.
Blog hiatus: Greetings from Los Angeles.
The New Age hoax that won’t die: Carlos Castañeda’s long deadly legacy.
25 years on, we’ve forgotten 9/11, or at least what it could teach us.
I think the AI bubble is about to burst, and here’s why.
Another concept illustration for “Faraway Star” has come out!
The Inner Garden
Confessions of a talking head: My history TV show experience.
I was recently invited to be on a history documentary show. Here's my experience doing it.
Behind the Scenes: Star Trek and the Vietnam War (Part I).
Behind the Scenes: San Francisco That Survived.
Behind the Scenes: Akhenaten, Egypt’s Strangest King.
Behind the Scenes: Millard Fillmore, The Conspiracy Theorist President.
Behind the Scenes: TWA, The Rise & Fall.
